New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-10
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.

NOTES OF THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN PICTURE
BUYING--THE VAN GRAyEsANDE COLLECTION.
The next sInoitl0n at The U0iou Lessu~ Club watch
will DO opened Taursd ~. will inclu 10 group OF
American Ian scapes There will foreign .atntaes
alsO but there will no many examples possible OF
b,auch CT American 10 which much good york IL
being done at present. There ha bssn great increase
IN tue nonber Of landscape painters within SIX years.
and variety ueth,ds n was once poasibIs
tn clssfy the Obituary American landscape belonging
to tho Hudson River School, Is certainty imp0ssi lie
tD make any such general classification to-day. The
strongest OF tho older nascape Painters si hold their
own aud every y1sr new ins appear whose perform.
snces promisng. or at Ieast rrsl'ectahie Evrry
exhibition that OF the SalnaguDht Club, shows q
greater tendency to sard landscape art There 10
usual proportion Of work whch l. either place
dist ctly initiative. bu after all executions taken 1t
10 probable hat tho landscape painters doing larger
amount OF satisfactory WORK tnsn ihs painters If any
other special class Of subiros GOOD Judgment IN max
Ing selections has been shown at exhit ions At the
Union l.rague Club, AMI It Doy b" assume that Gtin
nece -sary limits American Landscape at Will be veil
repre..nted ,is week. Tus feature OF ths exhib,n
togotber the admirable group OF native lsntsc
In tie Halstsd cOli-Non should holp to place this
branch Of It's postum before tue public
It Il quail ty rathSr than quaniry which ts In tho long
run. aud the choice OF pictures which can bear com-
parisoD with foreign work valuable ssrvioe mer.
artists The Union League Club has dOne exceoat
IN this direction, aud tsta DO hoped that
future It's nhlsoce will DO strongly exertod In bsnslt OF
good American art
It Is by such exhibitions rather than by those at tho
Academy that collectors resoled WHO 10 much
osard setting the fashion and fashion, IL must be
knowcdgrd. aas much do with picture bayiag. Tao
point OF Prose portanoe - that inrs, the elns
wrongly read the fashion IA ahont to change Ths old
master craze followed by wors zip VI Dusseldorf
art, ano bus oi"r' was sncreeied by France French
hel it, hsre tor nearly ten yea IL Was
after 9TH OF Milie Rousseau, Corot Dss
and Daubisny that tIer crit, were lly recon1si IL
this country American mpotdosIty sti naasei ny
the usual b,oniug" process, carried N r'cog
n,tion TO q. excess Anything AMI everything TO which
the OF tueso msa ooud Oe attached has found
ready market and Par for the s two or three years
really nne examples OF these artists have been rarely
offered for sale exccp: ut impossbis prices As every
ono knows this demani has developed thriving
business IL the manufacture Of fraudulent pictures 40
corning TO the Frencn re5'. there nave neen ia snlscto-
res in BeIsarn and In Paris All the evil has sr"wns'
grea, that speci esislOn has been deeme necessary
IN 10 tho petitions OF artists aud amateurs BIT
the forgery OF picture. 10 subject By ITSELF As rulo
the shrewd Paris dealer deems the death OF artist o.
soniII to boom OF tho first nagnit ide bus there
have been exceptions. OF wnich the most leu
on. are Breton aud vibrIL Responsibility for tneir
poou no woyer. must DO shared W American picture
No Freao dealer Dire susd of ths prices OF
the Morgan sale. which was probably tue cal n 'tion OF
IN AMERICAN picture ouytuS. III Oh tho
plces at that sale supported By comparativeiy
notLlus The values accorded them largely rot-
tious aud reaction For the tilns being
this sale s.sued 4 gro thing Tor FRENCH arr OUT tue
boom had really gone too far Ito freuen ai'isS
who ise their prices the strength of tha sale may
Ue compelled ro.u,t taon. for evey elm OF un-
reason Is oowei by more or less srvrrc collapse Tho
uaioety of American picture buyers ike prrsu sie
pctdros repfesen rational Invest
minis Nov inves ulons In French art at tho prices OK
tue sale. those which have prevailed Tor
tho years hardly DO called c"Usrry-
ave The reaction hay De slow III mahiiessinS
ITSELF tut its co LiuR may DC conudeutIy ptodctcd
he best French OF wi hold Its own. and
Preucu art will remain OF necessity strong tndueuce In
many ways What the fash Oh Will oe It Is not bard
To say difficult to Tar from France aud Jet tuere
i. uoi much promise OF discoveries hrre al pres
emit several Munich xuL Bcrdu pictures have been
brought bis ,~ur and the rxpor'ncbS m u .e'-
| ,Iou will he watched with Interest Ensilsn arr nas
never seu received here. IL Therefore Oe'oUes
mattel Of curious s"ecnlai,on w9- hrr return 10 tno
at present. one coliectio" oi usually ir-
tug AMI ~ the oder schoO's now oIe''d 10 coll
rc,ors Au effort has bron made TO ornS forward ga.
other culee OH nastrts and place II bIoo Tue
imssIt TO did masters TOR some Influence
couuts or something. Tue - ola masters o"nei Oy
tiou OF rrprud caoas may csis' Ill "verLaiD5 OK
he masters formerly s1ipre over here IN bales
sp-cu who have Odd pictures u Ills ose ~ sh
10 OF lie older souooi, OF soui iutr.n-
merit be added 10 our sol-csioD- tue adtan.
| isscs Would ho apparent But such u . e"oh would
bring multitudu OF copies for-rries aud rcstoeL
b-sde which Tia" naiufacturs OF CorOs and Ddu-
bigu,s would in-4nIncant. Moreover there Is al
rra extensive supp OF these neturcs la I'M cohn-
r,, There hardly dealer 10 the city VINO passes
week without bsins called upon " exAmiLe AL Old
m.-teI."
buying easiest siinr for collectors l. To
look closely al home There arc good Austrian
pIclurrs wion will atteutUn Oftsu Tie, Are pup
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